Desire to become is destructive.
By wanting to be something you are destroying yourself.
You think you ought to become this or that.
You have an idea about yourself, which you think would be ideal. Which you think would be worthy. Which you think would be complete.
You force yourself into meeting those arbitrary standards.
Now you destroy what you actually are.
The ideal which you harbour is not real.
The becoming which you dream of is not real.
The process of betterment, which you hope is there, it is not real.
There’s the outside becoming, yes. There’s the getting of job, setting a family, raising your children…
But the psychological becoming, it is not.
All psychological change is instantaneous.
All psychological change is the change of consciousness.
Consciousness changes instantaneously. Because it is not dependent on knowledge. It is only dependent on the insight. On the clarity of insight. Which is not when there is knowledge — but when there is EMPTINESS. THE SPACE TO RECEIVE.
Psychological becoming is destructive for it is delusional. This very delusion is the source of confusion. This confusion is adverse to understanding what you actually are.
When you have a vision of achievement in time, a dream which you deeply wish to be of value, you destroy the actual values in your life. And the vision you have of yourself destroys your own perception of what you ARE.
How stressed are we? How unhappy? How dissatisfied in our pursuits? And how confused?
We are all blinded my the hopes of psychological deliverance. By the hopes of completion in time. By the hopes of arrival. It compels us to take great pains, to put up with jobs we hate, people we don’t love, getting things we don’t like…
Desire to become is destructive.
Desire to become is destructive.
Forget your goals. I know it’s painful. But let go of it.
Reconnect yourself with yourself.
You will still be able to “achieve”, mind you. But that is immaterial.
Nothing to be gained can compare with the blissfulness of freedom.